Impressive line-up promises spectacle at Menorca Chess Open 2024

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The 3rd edition of the Menorca Chess Open will be held from 2-7 April, 2024 on the small Balearic island of Menorca, Spain. More than 250 players from 49 countries already registered for the event, including 47 Grandmasters!

A very strong field promises another chess spectacle on the island, and the current top seeds are GM Arjun Erigaisi (India, 2738), GM Nihal Sarin (India, 2693), GM Vladimir Fedoseev (Slovenia, 2690), GM Chithambaram Aravindh (India, 2662), GM Kirill Alekseenko (Austria, 2650). The starting list of players can be found below. The Winner of the previous two editions, Gukesh D, will not participate this year in the Menorca Chess Open, as he will be competing for the World Championship Match spot at the Candidates.

The event will be played in 9 rounds, swiss system, with the time control of 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment. The prize fund exceeds 20.000 euros, with 5.000 EUR reserved for the Winner of the event, and 1.500 EUR reserved for the best-ranked women players. The tournament venue this year is a luxury 4-star MarSenses Paradise Club hotel.

Detailed information to be found on the official website of the event.

Menorca Chess Open 2024 – Starting list of players (as of February 1st, 2024):

No.		Name	FED	Rtg
1	GM	Erigaisi, Arjun	IND	2738
2	GM	Nihal, Sarin	IND	2693
3	GM	Fedoseev, Vladimir	SLO	2690
4	GM	Aravindh, Chithambaram Vr.	IND	2662
5	GM	Alekseenko, Kirill	AUT	2650
6	GM	Pichot, Alan	ESP	2644
7	GM	Lagarde, Maxime	FRA	2642
8	GM	Nguyen, Thai Dai Van	CZE	2632
9	GM	Aryan, Chopra	IND	2630
10	GM	Chigaev, Maksim	ESP	2622
11	GM	Lu, Shanglei	CHN	2611
12	GM	Pranav, V	IND	2611
13	GM	Karthik, Venkataraman	IND	2609
14	GM	Mendonca, Leon Luke	IND	2608
15	GM	Albornoz Cabrera, Carlos Daniel	CUB	2603
16	GM	Idani, Pouya	IRI	2602
17	GM	Yuffa, Daniil	ESP	2601
18	GM	Jumabayev, Rinat	KAZ	2598
19	GM	Santos Ruiz, Miguel	ESP	2596
20	GM	Aditya, Mittal	IND	2588
21	GM	Maurizzi, Marc`andria	FRA	2572
22	GM	Jacobson, Brandon	USA	2569
23	GM	Sanal, Vahap	TUR	2567
24	GM	Nasuta, Grzegorz	POL	2563
25	GM	Alonso Rosell, Alvar	ESP	2562
26	GM	Sosa, Tomas	ARG	2554
27	GM	Visakh, N R	IND	2549
28	GM	Kourkoulos-Arditis, Stamatis	GRE	2547
29	GM	Stremavicius, Titas	LTU	2543
30	GM	Adhiban, B.	IND	2541
31	GM	Sankalp, Gupta	IND	2535
32	IM	Klimkowski, Jan	POL	2531
33	GM	Gorshtein, Ido	ISR	2523
34	GM	Raja, Rithvik R	IND	2522
35	GM	Arizmendi Martinez, Julen Luis	ESP	2521
36	GM	Krzyzanowski, Marcin	POL	2519
37	GM	Vignesh, N R	IND	2517
38	GM	Cuenca Jimenez, Jose Fernando	ESP	2514
39	IM	Vogel, Roven	GER	2514
40	GM	Pranav, Anand	IND	2513
41	GM	Mitrabha, Guha	IND	2504
42	IM	Iermito, Sebastian	ITA	2503
43	GM	Avila Pavas, Santiago	COL	2500
44	GM	Lubbe, Nikolas	GER	2500
45	IM	Prraneeth, Vuppala	IND	2500
46	IM	Lamard, Guillaume	FRA	2499
47	GM	Petkov, Momchil	BUL	2498
48	IM	Girel, Joseph	FRA	2492
49	IM	Szpar, Milosz	POL	2491
50	IM	Kosakowski, Jakub	POL	2486
51		Xiao, Tong(Qd)	CHN	2484
52	GM	Balakrishnan, Praveen	USA	2483
53	GM	Basso, Pier Luigi	ITA	2482
54	GM	Klekowski, Maciej	POL	2477
55	IM	Bora, Safal	USA	2475
56	IM	Shuvalova, Polina	FID	2475
57	IM	Baskin, Robert	GER	2474
58	IM	Roshka, Yevgeniy	UKR	2474
59	IM	Admiraal, Miguoel	NED	2471
60	IM	Castellanos Rodriguez, Renier	ESP	2468
61	GM	Zhu, Jiner	CHN	2467
62	IM	Fernandez Guillen, Ernesto J.	CUB	2465
63	IM	Nogerbek, Kazybek	KAZ	2463
64	IM	Siddharth, Jagadeesh	SGP	2457
65	FM	Macias Pino, Diego	ESP	2456
66	IM	Koelle, Tobias	GER	2453
67	FM	Panesar, Vedant	IND	2452
68	IM	Alexakis, Dimitris	GRE	2451
69	IM	Injac, Teodora	SRB	2439
70	IM	Seemann, Jakub	POL	2439
71	IM	Akbas, Umut Ata	TUR	2438
72	IM	Ceres, Dragos	MDA	2438
73	FM	Jacobson, Aaron	USA	2437
74	IM	Sokolovsky, Yahli	ISR	2436
75	IM	Heimann, Mark	USA	2435
76	IM	Levin, Guy	ISR	2435
77		Malek, Jan	POL	2435
78	IM	Ghazarian, Kirk	USA	2432
79	IM	Bilych, Olexiy	UKR	2427
80	IM	Sousa, Andre Ventura	POR	2423
81	WGM	Divya, Deshmukh	IND	2420
82	IM	Mohammad Fahad, Rahman	BAN	2418
83	IM	Eren, Ataberk	TUR	2416
84	IM	Deuer, Marius	GER	2415
85	IM	Wegener, Olaf	GER	2413
86	FM	De Winter, Arthur	NED	2409
87	IM	Sanchez Alvarez, Roberto Carlos	PAN	2407
88	IM	Song, Yuxin	CHN	2405
89	IM	Tutisani, Noe	GEO	2405
90	IM	Panda, Sambit	IND	2404
91	FM	Montoliu Cervero, Francisco	ESP	2400
92	IM	Vantika, Agrawal	IND	2398
93	FM	Moehn, Hans	GER	2398
94	FM	Niedbala, Bartlomiej	POL	2392
95	IM	Pasti, Aron	HUN	2389
96	IM	Audi, Ameya	IND	2385
97	IM	Poormosavi, Seyed Kian	IRI	2384
98	IM	Vega Gutierrez, Sabrina	ESP	2378
99	IM	Badelka, Olga	FID	2377
100	FM	Arhan, Chethan Anand	IND	2366
101	FM	Akhvlediani, Irakli	GEO	2359
102	FM	Oro, Faustino	ARG	2357
103	FM	Adarsh, Tripathi	IND	2356
104	IM	Mammadova, Gulnar	AZE	2351
105	WGM	Alinasab, Mobina	IRI	2351
106	IM	Balajayeva, Khanim	AZE	2350
107	IM	Manish, Anto Cristiano F	IND	2349
108	FM	Raczek, Krzysztof	POL	2347
109	IM	Unuk, Laura	SLO	2346
110	FM	Shohat, Yotam	ISR	2328
111	WIM	Nurmanova, Alua	KAZ	2326
112	IM	Pilaj, Herwig	AUT	2325
113		Liu, Zexu	CHN	2325
114	WGM	Nandhidhaa, P V	IND	2305
115	FM	Farokhi, Keyvan	GER	2299
116	FM	Blom, Vincent	NED	2294
117	FM	Ruiz Buendia, Miguel	ESP	2294
118	FM	Falkevall, Axel	SWE	2287
119	GM	Vogt, Lothar	GER	2285
120	IM	Kanyamarala, Tarun	IRL	2284
121		Zhu, Hengyi	CHN	2282
122	FM	Schenderowitsch, Michael	GER	2281
123	FM	Zwahr, Paul	GER	2280
124	FM	Krishnan, Ritvik	IND	2277
125	WGM	Priyanka, Nutakki	IND	2272
126	FM	Nurgaliyev, Sauat	KAZ	2262
127		De Groote, Ewoud	NED	2243
128	WIM	Sgircea, Silvia-Raluca	ROU	2242
129	FM	Bolat, Inayat	KAZ	2241
130	FM	Humburg, Philipp	GER	2241
131		Valdepenas Octavio, Javier	ESP	2228
132	WGM	Lubbe, Melanie	GER	2227
133	FM	Kuru, Atilla	TUR	2220
134	FM	Laurent, Julien G.	FRA	2218
135	CM	Aymerich Verdaguer, Eduard	ESP	2218
136	IM	Bradbury, Neil H	ENG	2217
137	WIM	Chitlange, Sakshi	IND	2210
138		Alfonso Durban, Xavier	ESP	2203
139	WIM	Kanyamarala, Trisha	IRL	2201
140	CM	Boucquet, Emile	BEL	2199
141	CM	Balague Camps, Marc	ESP	2197
142	FM	Rebers, Eugene	NED	2195
143	WGM	Cervantes Landeiro, Thalia	USA	2184
144	WIM	Pandey, Srishti	IND	2184
145		Aniruddh, Chatterjee	IND	2182
146	CM	Molina Carretero, Daniel	ESP	2180
147	WIM	Olde, Margareth	EST	2179
148		Marin Ferragut, Pau	ESP	2178
149	FM	Meessen, Rudolf	BEL	2169
150	CM	Perez Perez, Gabriel	ESP	2167
151	IM	Mannion, Stephen R	SCO	2166
152		Toolin, Christopher	USA	2165
153		Hentrich, Johannes	GER	2164
154		Chen, Yuan	CHN	2161
155		Borne, Felix	FRA	2158
156	IM	Rodriguez Lopez, Rafael	ESP	2152
157	FM	Brull Mayol, Cosme	ESP	2150
158		Ermachenko, Manuel	ESP	2150
159		Rempe, Jonas	GER	2150
160	FM	Ahn, Martin	BEL	2149
161		Amengual Perello, Jordi	ESP	2148
162	WFM	Kucharska, Honorata	POL	2137
163	WFM	Garcia-Castany Musellas, Gal.La	ESP	2135
164	WFM	Rodriguez Redondo, Adhara	ESP	2130
165		Martinez Piqueras, Carlos	ESP	2126
166	WFM	Zhao, Shengxin	CHN	2123
167		Verneuil, Pascal	FRA	2121
168		Zysko, Jan	POL	2109
169		Krauchi Romero, Martin	ESP	2107
170		Caglar, Ahmet Ata	TUR	2106
171		Solnicki, Michal	POL	2103
172		Eldho, Skaria	IND	2102
173	FM	Cubas Pons, Juan Miguel	ESP	2100
174	WFM	Cramling Bellon, Anna	SWE	2094
175	CM	Erdogan, Anil Berk	TUR	2091
176		Adam, Rafael	CAN	2091
177	AIM	Hurtado, Felipe	COL	2087
178	WFM	Vanduyfhuys, Daria	BEL	2083
179		Moll Gener, Joan	ESP	2083
180		Fiol Abrines, Antonio	ESP	2081
181		Badacsonyi, Stanley	ENG	2078
182		Aguilo Benejam, Alfredo	ESP	2066
183		Vanduyfhuys, Igor	BEL	2052
184		Aguado Doncel, Pablo Luis	ESP	2051
185		Lizzul Coppe, Mirko	ITA	2050
186		Montesinos Diaz, Luis	ESP	2050
187		Vardakas, Grigorios	GRE	2043
188		Queirolo Perez, Manuel	ESP	2038
189		Eche, Sylvain	FRA	2029
190		Ponseti Lluch, Joan	ESP	2029
191		Garcia Elio, Juan	ESP	2026
192		Planas Gene, Juan	ESP	2024
193		Aarav, Sarbalia	IND	2022
194	WCM	Vetokhina, Sofia	FID	2020
195	CM	Hebbar, Eshaan	USA	2018
196	FM	Ayza Ballester, Jordi	ESP	2016
197		Bergero, Simone	ITA	2008
198		Gallo, Ivan	ITA	2004
199		Perez Aleman, Pedro Tomas	ESP	2001
200		Ribeiro, Bruno	POR	2001
201		Sales Montealegre, Raquel	ESP	1997
202		Dasgupta, Avyukt	ENG	1995
203	WFM	Bidhar, Rutumbara	IND	1992
204	WFM	Meghna, C H	IND	1992
205		Coll Fullana, Pau	ESP	1979
206		Saine, Zachary	CAN	1978
207		Phatak, Aanjaneya	IND	1974
208		Pousada Garcia, Victor Daniel	ESP	1965
209	FM	Huguet, Sergio	HON	1964
210		Pal, Rohan	ENG	1960
211		Redondo Flores, David	ESP	1960
212		Sprenger De La Iglesia, Yevgeni	ESP	1958
213	WCM	Avila Fraire, Ameyalli	MEX	1946
214		Clotet Mas, Dan	ESP	1938
215	CM	Garmendia Vega, Gabriel	CHI	1937
216		Fellowes, Billy	ENG	1934
217	WFM	Barbier, Astrid	BEL	1930
218		Granath, Jonas	SWE	1929
219		Fraga Pons, Albert Borja	ESP	1915
220		Arroyo Arellano, Antonio	ESP	1912
221		Nguyen, Khoi	BEL	1911
222		Machin Arbelo, Pedro Alexis	ESP	1903
223		De Kleuver, Jonathan	NED	1901
224		Garcia Martinez, Josep	ESP	1897
225		Krishnan, Saatvik	USA	1892
226		Chen, Zhi	CHN	1885
227	WFM	Samaganova, Aleksandra	KGZ	1884
228		Andriessen, Bart Jan	NED	1884
229		Garbezza, Davide	ITA	1884
230		Verweij, Kees	NED	1880
231		Suez-Panama, Gilles	FRA	1868
232		Pichugov, Andrey	ENG	1867
233		Salord Guillen, Joan	ESP	1850
234		Escudero Ribo, Eloi	ESP	1849
235		Sureda Gonzalez, Miquel	ESP	1849
236		Patel, Zain	ENG	1840
237		Allentin, Eric	FRA	1839
238		Huyghues-Beaufond, Mathis	FRA	1830
239		Moll Pons, Jana	ESP	1830
240		Chen, Yiru	CHN	1828
241		Vinent Juanico, Marc	ESP	1819
242		Yang, Sung-Jui	TPE	1819
243		Sureda Gonzalez, Cristina	ESP	1818
244		Camps Abadia, Arnau	ESP	1817
245		Mccusker, Andrew	SCO	1814
246		Catona, Dan	FID	1813
247		Patel, Keatan	ENG	1799
248		Kucharska, Helena	POL	1797
249		Liu, Meng	CHN	1795
250		Matias, Luis Miguel Rodrigues	POR	1794
251		Yedid, Lior	ENG	1792
252		Bagur Moll, Guillem Uriel	ESP	1782
253		De Kleijn, Erwin	NED	1780
254		Amoros Moran, Jose Joaquin	ESP	1773
255		Manske, Alexander	GER	1770
256		Soriano Pallas, Rafael	ESP	1768
257		Alcindor, Samuel	FRA	1745
258		Nieto Foresti, Julian	ESP	1743
259		Ahn, Maximilian	BEL	1737
260		Mercadal Benejam, Josep	ESP	1734
261		Avetisyan, Ani	ARM	1733
262		Boshoma, Chisomo	RSA	1724
263		Pang, Ethan	ENG	1721
264		Burgui Bueno, Juan	ESP	1711
265		Ha, Yihan	CHN	1696
266		Wang, Yi(Bj)	CHN	1636
267		Ribon Calabia, Mariano	ESP	1635
268		Aryan, Mehta	IND	1607
269		Da Silva, Jose Carlos Peixoto M.	BRA	1554